Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Marxist theory of the Second International the economic base is dogmatically described as determining the superstructure ( Callinicos 1983 : 62 ) . |
| 2 | Within the rock discourse of the time , progressive rock was widely regarded as associated with , indeed as the music of , the ‘ counterculture ’ . |
| 3 | Tall hierarchies are often seen as bureaucratic . |
| 4 | Low potencies are usually regarded as being those up to and including the 30c or 30x . |
| 5 | A spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry was later quoted as reaffirming that the disputed islands belonged to Iran , and as referring to the GCC 's use of " inappropriate words " . |
| 6 | Describing the new music as ‘ a communicable disease ’ and ‘ the music of delinquents ’ , The Daily Mail was so moved as to run a front-page editorial , ‘ Rock'n Roll Babies ’ , which apart from issuing a hollow , reassuring prophecy — ‘ It will pass ’ — stoked up the fires of respectable discontent against ‘ this sudden ‘ musical ’ ’ phenomenon which has led to outbreaks of rowdyism' . |
| 7 | English law is commonly portrayed as adversarial , embodying a series of safeguards to prevent an accused from being wrongly convicted . |
| 8 | In the case of trade union reform in the UK this is partly because government has tried and failed but more generally because the public sector is now viewed as having a self-interest which need bear no relation to the public interest . |
| 9 | Strike leaders claimed " almost complete paralysis " in the ports and mining sectors , but the public sector was also reported as having operated normally . |
| 10 | However , to public and professionals alike many old buildings are still regarded as representing little more than four external walls . |
| 11 | The tale of phantom archers from Agincourt aiding British troops was widely accepted as factual , and by the summer of 1915 the legend of the ‘ Angels of Mons ’ had swept the country . |
| 12 | Although they were expensive , public clocks were generally regarded as being very useful . |
| 13 | Cultural evolution is often characterized as Lamarckian in quality , in other words , dependent on the transmission of acquired characters , and relatively fast ; while genetic evolution is Darwinian , that is , dependent on changes in gene frequencies across generations , and slow . |
| 14 | This set the pattern for all later accounts of El Cid up to the seventeenth century , when medieval sources were frequently questioned as to their ultimate accuracy . |
| 15 | Nine days ago , a 26 year old woman was also attacked as she walked along New Road . |
| 16 | In this latest attack a nineteen year old woman was sexually assaulted as she crossed this footbridge walking home . |
| 17 | This looks more uniform , and the old names are then described as ‘ trivial ’ . |
| 18 | Its main thrust was that challenges to the order and stability of bourgeois hegemony in the social sphere are then registered as challenges to order and stability , first as content and then as form , in the aesthetic sphere . |
| 19 | A 24 year old man was later arrested as he arrived at Oxford train station . |
| 20 | Residential care is still considered as inevitable for many disabled people . |
| 21 | The implications of some of the social causes were frankly stated as being : |
| 22 | All bedrooms have en suite or private facilities and colour TV , their attractive wooden shutters are always appreciated as they block out the dawn chorus — traffic noise is not a problem ! |
| 23 | Whether he or she is welcome or not in the situation ( and , according to circumstance and the individual part of each member in it , the " Welfare " will be seen as a saving and succouring agency , an interfering nuisance or an outright threat ) , the social worker is usually seen as in a position of some power — as in a position to alter the situation or at least to make some expert attempt to alter it . |
| 24 | Even with the cost of detailed research , a set of reconstruction drawings of a site is usually far cheaper than a physical reconstruction ; in any case , such detailed drawings are generally needed as preparation for a physical reconstruction . |
| 25 | They tend , however , towards what Sahlins has castigated as a ‘ sociability fetishism ’ ( 1976a : 120 ) , in which social structure is often treated as both prior to , and ontologically superior to , its appearance in goods . |
| 26 | Social factors are then suggested as somehow additional to this essentially technical breakthrough : ‘ The extensive diffusion of the alphabet in Greece was also materially assisted by various social , economic and technological factors ’ ( ibid. p. 41 ) ( my emphasis ) . |
| 27 | Marked contrasts were also noted as to whether it was an individual 's first case . |
| 28 | The bass section is fully enclosed as expected , but the rest of the enclosure is open a the back , and only partly enclosed at the sides , making the system free to radiate backwards as well as forwards ( this property is known as ‘ dipole ’ , or figure of eight radiation ) . |
| 29 | While economic competitiveness was now presented as dependent upon the education of the nation 's population , the drift of the Report was not purely towards an economistic " conclusion , " culture " being another of its concerns ( albeit a secondary one ) : " Both in general cultural standards and in competitive intellectual power , vigorous action is needed to avert the danger of a serious relative decline in this country 's standing . " |
| 30 | A percentage of these surplus calories is then stored as body fat , and this is what makes people overweight . |